George H.W. Bush: “There's one thing I'm not going to do. I'm not going to pull our…”

On the recordNovember 27, 2006

There's one thing I'm not going to do. I'm not going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete.

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Republican · Texas

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Bush reaffirms his commitment to maintaining U.S. troop presence in Iraq until the mission is accomplished.

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